AC Instrumentation Transducers

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Look-up Tables

Having learned about digital memory devices in the last chapter, we…

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Bipolar Junction Transistors

The bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was named because its operation…

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Wheatstone Bridge Calculator

This calculator helps determine the resistance of a variable resistor within a Wheatstone bridge circuit or the differential voltage created across the bridge terminals.

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Pressure Unit Conversion Calculator

This calculator will convert pressure values to ten different standard units for pressure.

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Si Lab - Light Sensor (LED Photodetector)

In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, use an LED as a light-sensitive photodetector and learn how to use a bipolar transistor in a common-emitter amplifier configuration.

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DC Lab - Thermoelectricity

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.

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Design Project: Simple Component Curve-Tracer Circuit

What do each of the oscilloscope axes represent, in real-life terms…

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Memory Devices

Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…

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Clipper and Clamper Circuits

Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

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Binary Count Sequence

If we examine a four-bit binary count sequence from 0000 to 1111, a…

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Series-Parallel DC Circuits

Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

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LC Tank Circuit Resonance Calculator

This calculator computes the resonant frequency of a parallel inductor and capacitor "tank" circuit.

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Contact “Bounce”

When a switch is actuated and contacts touch one another under the…

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Component Failure Analysis (Continued)

“I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the…

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Microstrip Impedance Calculator

This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a microstrip.

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Performance-Based Assessments for Basic Electricity Competencies

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The Silicon-Controlled Switch (SCS)

If we take the equivalent circuit of an SCR and add another external…

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Network Protocols

Aside from the issues of the physical network (signal types and…

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Conductor Size

It should be common-sense knowledge that liquids flow through…

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Amplifiers

Practical Benefit of Active Devices The practical benefit of active…

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Beam Power Tubes

In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…

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Transistors, Hybrid

In essence, the IGFET controls the base current of a BJT, which…

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More on AC “polarity”

Complex numbers are useful for AC circuit analysis because they…

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Mixed-Frequency Signals

What is a harmonic frequency? If an oscillator circuit outputs a…

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Simple Vector Addition

Remember that vectors are mathematical objects just like numbers on a…

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Reflection Attenuator Calculator

This tool is designed to calculate the value of resistance R1 in a reflection attenuator.

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What is Norton’s Theorem and the Norton Equivalent Circuit?

This article explains the step-by-step process for determining the…

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Sources of Electricity

What is the difference between DC and AC electricity? Identify some…

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Static Electricity

What does it mean for an object to have an electric charge? Give an…

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Series LED Resistor Calculator

This series LED resistance calculator is perfect for when you have a single LED or a number of the same color of LEDs in series and need to know which resistor you should use.

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Non-Inverting Op-Amp Resistor Calculator

This calculator determines the bias and feedback of resistors for a non-inverting Op-Amp

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Inductor Quirks

In an ideal case, an inductor acts as a purely reactive device. That…

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Passive Integrator and Differentiator Circuits

∫f(x) dx Calculus alert! Calculus is a branch of mathematics that…

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Derivative of a Constant

    (“c” being a constant)   RELATED…

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Susceptance and Admittance

What is Conductance? In the study of DC circuits, the student of…

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Introduction to Digital Communication

In the design of large and complex digital systems, it is often…

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PN Junctions

Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…

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Balanced Attenuator Calculator

This balanced attenuator calculator helps you determine the resistor (R1) values for a balanced attenuator.

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Why digital?

Although many textbooks provide good introductions to digital memory…

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Shock Current Path

As we’ve already learned, electricity requires a complete path…

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Inductors

An inductor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that…

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Intro Lab - Electromagnetic Induction

In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will learn about electromagnetic induction using an electromagnet and a permanent magnet.

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Edge Coupled Microstrip Impedance Calculator

This tool helps calculate the impedance of an edge-coupled microstrip.

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Potential Pitfalls

Fallacious reasoning and poor interpersonal relations account for more…

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Using Multiple Combinational Circuits

As an example of using several circuits together, we are going to make…

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Capacitance Calculator

This calculates the capacitance of a capacitor based on its charge, Q, and its voltage, V, according to the formula, C=Q/V.

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